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Schulz w Drohobyczu po raz piąty
Schulz in Drogobych for the Fifth Time

Author(s): Marek Wilczyński
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Conference Report, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz; schulz studies; literary theory; interwar period; polish literature;

Summary/Abstract: In September 2012, Pedagogical University in Drogobych, Ukraine, hosted 5thInternational Bruno Schulz Festival. The Festival’s topic was “Bruno Schulz as Philosopher and Literary Theorist.” In 2014, thanks to financial support of the Polish Institute in Kyiv, a four-language volume was published, including all the academic papers delivered during the festival conference. The opening section of the collection includes four statements by special guests: the Polish intellectual Adam Michnik, the noted Israeli fiction writer David Grossman, the Ukrainian writer Taras Prokhasko, and the Russian writer Victor Yerofeev. The remaining sections focus on new interpretations145of Schulz’s works, various comparative contexts, and the history of the town of Drogobych, where Schulz was born and finally killed by the Nazis.

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 122-124
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Polish